Jimmy Lewis' blog
VS2008 SP1: Issues Changing Your Installed Features
We’ve had many users report issues when trying to change their installed features in VS2008...
Date: 07/30/2010
Silverlight 4 Upgrade Breaks Silverlight Debugging Experience
A design change in the Silverlight 4 installer now causes older developer runtime to be upgraded...
Date: 04/22/2010
Finding the Visual Studio Activity Log
Sometimes when something goes wrong in Visual Studio, you might see the following dialog: We’ve had...
Date: 02/26/2010
64-Bit Team Build Fails on Silverlight Projects (and How to Fix It)
If you have a Silverlight project under source control, and try to build it on a 64-bit Team Build...
Date: 01/22/2010
MSBuilding Web Site Projects doesn’t Copy Silverlight XAP (and How to Fix It)
If you have a Silverlight application that is consumed by a Web Site Project in Visual Studio (not...
Date: 11/02/2009
Refactoring Root namespace Breaks Silverlight Applications (and How to Fix It)
One scenario that happens fairly often for new apps is to create a new project and then part way...
Date: 10/28/2009
Silverlight 3 Support in VS2010 Beta 2
This evening I put up a blog post on my team’s blog to summarize some of the changes that have come...
Date: 10/27/2009
VS2010 Beta 2 installation issue with Silverlight 3 SDK
Some folks have already started trying out the latest VS2010 release, and have been receiving...
Date: 10/21/2009
Debugging Silverlight Applications in Out Of Browser Mode
On an internal mailing list yesterday, someone asked how to debug their Silverlight 3 application as...
Date: 07/28/2009
Upgrading to Silverlight 3 Tools for VS2008 (RTW)
With the release to web (RTW) of Silverlight 3, a lot of folks will [hopefully] be upgrading to take...
Date: 07/11/2009
Setting up Silverlight Development in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
There’s been some confusion with setting up Silverlight development the VS 2010 Beta 1 release,...
Date: 07/06/2009
Using Silverlight 3 beta’s Transparent Platform Extension and Out of Browser Features in Dev10 Beta 1
In Dev10 Beta 1, which was just released, there isn’t any way to enable the Transparent Platform...
Date: 05/20/2009
Making the Silverlight-Enabled WCF Service in Dev10 Beta 1 Work with Silverlight 2
In Dev10 Beta 1, the Silverlight-enabled WCF Service template is the version used for Silverlight 3...
Date: 05/20/2009
Understanding Issues Installing Silverlight 3 via Web Platform Installer
With the release of the Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta at MIX last week, you can now install any of...
Date: 03/24/2009
Switching Your Visual Studio Environment Between Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3
With the release of Silverlight 3 Beta, you’ll may want to try out the new features. Unfortunately,...
Date: 03/18/2009
Want Help (files) With Silverlight 3?
In Silverlight 3, the help files are shipping as a separate CHM file, instead of integrating with...
Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight 3 Tools Issue: New WCF Template is Broken by Silverlight 2 SDK
In Silverlight 3, we’ve introduced support for binary message encoding for WCF services, which...
Date: 03/18/2009
Silverlight Tools 2 Issue: Hosting Pages Broken from Beta 2 to RTW
A fair number of people are having issues with the ASP.NET control used to host Silverlight...
Date: 11/06/2008
Silverlight Tools RTW is out! (for English)
The RTW release of Silverlight Tools for VS 2008 is out! There are no functional changes from...
Date: 10/28/2008
Silverlight Tools RC1 released for all languages
Today we’ve released the remaining languages of Silverlight Tools RC1 for Visual Studio 2008. ...
Date: 10/21/2008
Silverlight Tools Installation Speed bumps?
There’s been a few questions that come up between all of the Silverlight 2 releases, especially with...
Date: 10/16/2008
Silverlight Tools Tip: Offline Installation
Starting with RC0 and continuing through our RTW release of Silverlight 2 Tools for Visual Studio,...
Date: 09/29/2008
Silverlight Tools Tip: How to customize the default Hosting Web Project Choices for Silverlight Applications
Currently in Silverlight Tools Beta 2, by default when you create a new Silverlight Application, Web...
Date: 08/15/2008
Silverlight Tip: Reflecting Objects Horizontally or Vertically using ScaleTransform
While working on a Silverlight application, I wanted to have two instances of a class which faced...
Date: 08/01/2008